Coloring-tool.



No 69|,l84. Patented Ian. M, I902.

H. SHICKLER.

COLORING TOOL.

(Application filed Aug. 17, 1901.}

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HEINRICH SCHICKLER, OF WVILMERSDORF, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY.

COLORING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 691 ,184, dated January14, 1902.

Application filed August 1.7, 1901. Serial No, 72,429, (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEINRICH SoHIoKLER, master painter, a subject of theKing of VVi'irtemberg, residing at No. 7 Ringbahnstrasse, in DeutschWilmersdorf, near Berlin, in the Empire of Germany, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Coloring- Tools, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to an apparatus for use in the decoration ofdwelling-rooms and the like, and has for its object to permit ofdecoration-lines of various colors and widths, as required in thepainting of borders, as well as endless friezes and ornamentations uponsuch walls and ceilings to be effected or produced by a simple movementof the apparatus in a longitudinal direction.

In the accompanying drawings a construction for carrying my inventioninto effect is shown, in WlliCl1- Figure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2,a plan partly in longitudinal section.

Upon a rigid axis or, carried by the shanks b of a movableframe-carrier, a number of rotatable disks or rollers c are mounted,correspondingin number, width, and distance from each other to thedecorative bordering or ornamentation to be produced. The spacing orlocation of the disks to each other can, as shown in the drawings, beadjusted by movable rings or collars of varying width within certainlimits to any desired degree. The circumference of each of the disks 0is provided with a plain or pattern-producing covering d, of felt orother suitable color-absorbing material, and beneath each disk a troughf is arranged, each of these troughs being carried by the middle shank gof the said framecarrier in such a manner that a portion of thecircumference of each disk is caused to dip into the liquid or pastycoloring material contained in the trough belonging or attached beneaththe same.

The improved apparatus is guided along the edge of the ceiling or wallin such manner that each of the above-mentionedv disks or rollersuniformly touch the surface to be deoorated, whereby, as is apparent, anumber of borders, friezes, and ornamentations will be produced in form,breadth, and color corresponding to the type of the respective rollersand the color of the material in the said trough. The handle 7t insuresa reliable guiding of the apparatus along the ceiling or the Wall.

To conveniently insure the true or straight movement of the apparatus,as Well as to prevent a tipping of the same when traveling along therespective wall or ceiling, the apparatus is provided with twohorizontal and two vertical guide-rollers 7t and I, mounted upon an arm2', this arm forming a continuation, so to speak, of the axis a andprojecting beyond the shanks b of the frame-carrier. It will thus beapparent that these guide-rollers when brought to bear against andtravel along a suitably-held rule or against a straight edge of the wallor ceiling will cause the desired accuracy in the movement of theapparatus to be perfectly attained What I claim, and desire to protectby Letters Patent, is-

In an improved apparatus for the production of variously-colored plainor ornamental borders or friezes upon ceilings and walls the combinationwith a number of disks or rollers 0 provided at their circumference witha plain or pattern-producing covering of felt or other suitablepaint-absorbing material, the said disks being mounted upon a commonaxis a and optionally adjustable in their distance apart by intermediaterings or collars e, of coloring-troughs f, interchangeably arrangedunder each disk and carried by the middle shank g of a frame-carrier andlastly of guide-rollers 7t and Z, mounted upona projected arm of thesaid axis, all operating substantially and for the purpose as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twowitnesses.

HEINRICH SGHIOKLER.

Witnesses:

HENRY HASPER, WOLDEMAR I-IAUPT.

